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“He ain't heavy, he’s my brother" : the influence of a culturally specific mentoring program for at-risk Black and Latino college-bound male youth.
(2021-07-21)
The widening achievement gap between Black and Latino male students, when compared to their White peers, is a phenomenon that continues to garner the attention of urban communities on local and national levels. The number ...
Leaving education : a descriptive single-case study examining what factors drive teachers from the profession in Oklahoma.
(2021-10-31)
Teacher attrition adversely impacts the academic future of the students in public schools. Each year, thousands of classrooms go without qualified teachers to provide instruction. Without qualified teachers to instruct ...
Career outcomes and perceptions across graduate programs : an explanatory sequential mixed methods study of dispute resolution and conflict management alumni.
(2021-11-04)
Universities and academic programs face increasing pressure to align educational outcomes and career outcomes for their students as a measure of program and student success (Coughlin et al., 2016). Graduate programs in the ...
Educators’ perceptions of student surveys in relation to other performance measures in teacher evaluations : a multiple case study.
(2021-07-15)
This multiple case study examined educators’ perceptions about the use of student perception surveys in relation to other performance measures in the formal teacher evaluation process. The examination of teachers’ perceptions ...
Examining teachers’ observations of a 1:1 implementation’s impacts on high school students’ communication and social skills : a qualitative case study.
(2021-07-21)
One-to-one (1:1) student-to-laptop programs proliferate K–12 school settings in the United States and elsewhere, but it remains difficult to determine the extent to which these programs contribute to meaningful and positive ...
Stress and burnout of secondary principals in a rural school district in South-Central Texas : a case study.
(2021-04-09)
Principals play an integral role in promoting the overall success of a school. Principal turnover is an increasing problem across the United States, which has created a principal shortage. Turnover of effective school ...
A collective case study on student advocacy services for iGen students in higher education.
(2021-11-16)
Generation Z or iGen is the current generation attending colleges and universities, and their needs differ from their predecessors. Public State University’s Student Advocacy and Assistance Office began shifting the services ...
A new genre of educators : a descriptive case study examining next-career professionals.
(2021-09-21)
School districts across the country face teacher shortages. Moreover, these school districts have demonstrably low results when placing non-certified teachers directly into the classroom without any pedagogical training. ...
The importance of what students care about : a grounded theory exploration of student preferences and pathways.
(2021-07-07)
Students make countless decisions in college. Yet, few studies on student pathways through college consider the importance of what students care about. A review of the higher education literature devoted to student pathways ...
Influences on academic talent development of Black females : systematic review and case study.
(2020-09-24)
Although Black females are the majority of the Black population in colleges and universities, Black women are still underrepresented in advanced degree programs. Moreover, Black females are underrepresented in other areas ...